Increasing Skepticism Against Robots

01/22/2019 - In Europe, people are more reserved regarding robots than they were five years ago. This is shown in a new study published by scientists from Linz and Würzburg. Robots performing in surgeries, robots in automobile production, and robots in caregiving. In some areas, the machines are already well-established, in others they are on the rise. The psychologists Timo Gnambs from Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (Austria) and Markus Appel from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Germany) believe that we are at the brink of a robotic era. More and more robots in everyday life. But how do people feel about robots' Apparently increasingly uncomfortable, as the two professors show in the journal "Computers in Human Behavior": according to their cross-European data analysis, robots were evaluated more negatively in 2017 than five years before.
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